No joint statement could be agreed upon by the participants at the G20 meeting of Foreign Ministers in Atlanta, Georgia. All that emerged was a vacuous “G20 Chair’s Statement” drafted by the U.S.

The gathered diplomats couldn’t even take the traditional “family photo” of all the participants, because a number of European diplomats, in a fit of adolescent petulance, refused to be photographed along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, dw.com reported.